This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship between Russia, by far the dominant ec...onomic and military power in the region, and the other former republics. They also examine new developments towards economic blocs, such as membership in the European Union or the competing Eurasian Economic Union, as well as new security arrangements in the form of military cooperation and alliance structures. This book reflects the broad range of changes across this important world region by engaging in insightful analysis of current developments in Central Asia, Ukraine, Russia, the Caucasus, and separatist regions. The authors explore new state alliances and the evolving cultural and geopolitical orientations of former Soviet citizens. Some chapters also examine the dynamics of wars that have occurred in the post-Soviet space, as well as how local political developments are reflected in electoral preferences and struggles over control of public spaces. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Eurasian Geography and Economics.Read more

This guide contains 219 entries which consist of full-length essays about the major schools, doctrines, strategies, people, controversies and policies of geopolitics, in the main countries concerned. They are cross-referenced and accompanied by over 660 bibliographical citations.

With this anthology of his 'sequentially structured maxims', free thinker John O'Loughlin has finally arrived at the ne plus ultra of his philosophical oeuvre, which combines all the most logically consistent material from the last twelve original titles in one definitive volume ...that, on account of the comprehensively exacting nature of his quadripartite structures and the way their theorizing evolves, must rank as the 'bible' of his philosophy, if not of all philosophy of a metaphysical persuasion, that yet allows for other categories, both atomic and pseudo-atomic, to be accounted for in such fashion that everything is, as it were, nailed into place the better to support the overall morphology of unrelenting logic.Read more

With this title the author believes he has finally rached the end of his long philosophical journey, spanning some five decades, in what he regards as the 'apotheosis' of his metaphysically-oriented philosophy, the 'top rung' of the tall ladder that he has climbed, 'rung by rung'..., in the process of overhauling one book after another with intent to nailing his ethical and logical and ontological and eschatological colours to the mast of what has guided him in his quest for the definitive realization and presentation of his philosophy. But be warned: this is not a prose text, so don't expect the going to be easy, because it won't be, even if an analogy with 'Finnegans Wake' as the arcane end-product of a long literary career would not be altogether fanciful!Read more